Saturday, August 28, 2004
random images from uploadyourimages.com
I took this pic in WY
Random image from UploadYourImages.com
I clicked the random image at uploadyourimages.com and this is what I got.
cool.
cool.
Friday, August 27, 2004
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Here's a little step-by-step instructional post about how I add pictures to my blog. I don't pay for blogger's premium service or use their picture hosting service (it wasn't available yet when I started).
Step 1. Get the picture ready for the webpage.
You don't want it to take forever to download, so you gotta crop, resize, and recompress the picture. You can use whatever photo editing software you have or search for "The GIMP" on google. I make all my picutes 500 or fewer pixels wide so they fit into my page design.
Step 2. Upload the Picture
You can use any image hosting service you want, but I use uploadyourimages.com. It's a nice service and they allow direct links to the images (needed to display them on the blog). Just click the Browse button the their page and then find the images you just edited (it helps to pay attention to where they're being saved when you edit them). The filename will appear in the filename field - then you hit the upload button and it'll take you to another page telling you that the image was sucessfully uploaded (you have to add them one at a time). This page will have a link to your image's page which will have the "HTML" link (this is the one you want). You just copy this whole thing including the '<' and '>'. It'll look something like <img src="..."> The '...' will be the web address of the image - you just need to copy the HTML link.
Step 3. Write the post and insert image links
Now you just write the post and paste the HTML links for the images into the composer window where you want the images to appear. It's best to have the image link on a line by itself especially if it's a large image.
Now you just publish your post and when you view the blog you should see the images there.
The following line is the link used for the following image.
<img src="http://www.uploadyourimages.com/img/046232horse_and_dog_074_c.jpg">
Step 1. Get the picture ready for the webpage.
You don't want it to take forever to download, so you gotta crop, resize, and recompress the picture. You can use whatever photo editing software you have or search for "The GIMP" on google. I make all my picutes 500 or fewer pixels wide so they fit into my page design.
Step 2. Upload the Picture
You can use any image hosting service you want, but I use uploadyourimages.com. It's a nice service and they allow direct links to the images (needed to display them on the blog). Just click the Browse button the their page and then find the images you just edited (it helps to pay attention to where they're being saved when you edit them). The filename will appear in the filename field - then you hit the upload button and it'll take you to another page telling you that the image was sucessfully uploaded (you have to add them one at a time). This page will have a link to your image's page which will have the "HTML" link (this is the one you want). You just copy this whole thing including the '<' and '>'. It'll look something like <img src="..."> The '...' will be the web address of the image - you just need to copy the HTML link.
Step 3. Write the post and insert image links
Now you just write the post and paste the HTML links for the images into the composer window where you want the images to appear. It's best to have the image link on a line by itself especially if it's a large image.
Now you just publish your post and when you view the blog you should see the images there.
The following line is the link used for the following image.
<img src="http://www.uploadyourimages.com/img/046232horse_and_dog_074_c.jpg">
Sunday, August 22, 2004
Might move to WY
I'm thinking of moving to Wyoming. I'd been thinking about this for a while, but my brother John just informed me that he's planning to quit his current job and move out there and get a better job . So that'd be kinda cool.
I might look for a job in the Twin Cities area some more.
I might look for a job in the Twin Cities area some more.
Saturday, August 14, 2004
The ads at the top
I was just noticing the ads banner at the top of my blog. This is a google context relevant ad banner (put there by blogspot, not by me - I don't get any money for it). But they use some kinda context search thing to place relevant ads up there so that the ads are related (somewhat) to what the page is about....
Well, I noticed that both of the ads are for horse farms. I'm not really a horse person, but I guess I've been writing about horses a bit lately. I wonder if I say motorcycle a thousand times if they'll change to motorcycle ads.
motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle.....
Well, I noticed that both of the ads are for horse farms. I'm not really a horse person, but I guess I've been writing about horses a bit lately. I wonder if I say motorcycle a thousand times if they'll change to motorcycle ads.
motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle motorcycle.....
Thursday, August 12, 2004
This is a good post on my brother's blog. The 1st comment is from me... it's for all you folks back East.
If you like origami (which I do),
And you like buckyballs (which I do),
Then you'll like this page.
It's about origami unit buckyballs. The origami is pretty simple, but you have to do a lot of folding when a model requires a couple hundred units. Assembling the units can get tricky too - especially when you get to the last joint.
It is true origami in that you start with square pieces of paper and use only folds, no cutting.
I started cutting up used printer paper into 3.5" squares to make my origami paper, but the thicker printer paper could make assembling the units difficult. I had a stack of old magazines that were going to be thrown out and I noticed that the magazine paper is thinner and kind of slippery so that the units would slide together nicely. I stuck with the 3.5" size (can get 6 pieces from one page), and I cut two pages folded in half at once so I'm cutting through 4 layers at a time with a little plastic paper cutter designed for scrap booking. With the paper cutter, I'm able to easily make perfect 3.5" sqares (even with 4 layers at a time). When folding, I try to get the most interresting color/pattern to be visible when I'm done. Someday maybe I'll get some nice colored origami paper for this. But old magazines are cheaper.
And you like buckyballs (which I do),
Then you'll like this page.
It's about origami unit buckyballs. The origami is pretty simple, but you have to do a lot of folding when a model requires a couple hundred units. Assembling the units can get tricky too - especially when you get to the last joint.
It is true origami in that you start with square pieces of paper and use only folds, no cutting.
I started cutting up used printer paper into 3.5" squares to make my origami paper, but the thicker printer paper could make assembling the units difficult. I had a stack of old magazines that were going to be thrown out and I noticed that the magazine paper is thinner and kind of slippery so that the units would slide together nicely. I stuck with the 3.5" size (can get 6 pieces from one page), and I cut two pages folded in half at once so I'm cutting through 4 layers at a time with a little plastic paper cutter designed for scrap booking. With the paper cutter, I'm able to easily make perfect 3.5" sqares (even with 4 layers at a time). When folding, I try to get the most interresting color/pattern to be visible when I'm done. Someday maybe I'll get some nice colored origami paper for this. But old magazines are cheaper.
Monday, August 09, 2004
Housesitting and job hunting
I'm house sitting for Brian Burke for 2 weeks while he, Sara, and Nathan are in Arizona. I'm also job hunting in the area. I'm hoping to get a job fixing computers or something.
Thursday, August 05, 2004
County Fair this Week.
I've been helping the Laurie, Harmony, Isaac, and Faith with their horses at the fair all this week. So I haven't had much time for anything else. They have 4 horses there all week, and Sara came down with her horse Tez so Faith could ride him for the first 2 days of the fair.
It's been pretty crazy. Today is the first day that we don't have any horse stuff going on (there's a miniature horse show today), but I went down to feed and water all the horses because Laurie and the kids all had to do volunteer work for their 4-H club today and they were running late and didn't have time to see to the horses. Then I had to rush back to the house to take Sean to the airport because he's heading out to a conference in Denver. Traffic was pretty terrible because of construction on the bridge near Newport on 494. My car needs a new thermistat and valve cover gasket, but I don't have the money to buy them right now (yes, they're both pretty cheap items, but i have no money). My car runs fine, just a little hot - not in the red, and leaks a little oil. So I'll probably just keep driving it as it is even though it's probably not good for it.
Sara had truck problems on the way down here, but it turned out to be no really big deal, but adventurous - she had to have her truck and trailer towed to the fair and then the truck to a repair shop. Faith and Sara went to Walmart and locked the keys in Faith's car. I went there to help them, but Faith's boyfriend Jason was on his way with the lockout kit from the garage he works at. It took him about 30 seconds to open the car. But while we were waiting for him, Faith, Sara, and I played some cards on the hood of her car. Afterwards, I took Sara to pick up her truck from the repair shop which was closed, but they left the keys in it for her and trusted her to slip the money in through the key drop slot.
I had a lot of fun hanging out with Faith and Sara at the fairgrounds durring the horse shows. They stayed there 2 nights in a row, and Sara had a little TV and DVD player in her horse trailer. Sara's gone home now because Faith is done using Tez. It'll be kinda lonely there without her for the rest of the fair. Faith will be using her usual horse, Chica Bonita, for the rest of the fair.
Harmony sang the National Anthem for the beginning of the horse show on the first two days. She also sang it for the talent show last night. Her friend Hanna Szajner went on stage with her to hold the flag. Harmony sang very well (2 verses) and recieved more applause than any other act. There were more than a few tears by the end of the song which she dedicated to her brother Jacob who is a Marine deployed to Iraq. But the judges were biased or else paid-off and she didn't even place. First place went to some little kid who danced to Michael Jackson's Bad or something. What's the world coming to?
It's been pretty crazy. Today is the first day that we don't have any horse stuff going on (there's a miniature horse show today), but I went down to feed and water all the horses because Laurie and the kids all had to do volunteer work for their 4-H club today and they were running late and didn't have time to see to the horses. Then I had to rush back to the house to take Sean to the airport because he's heading out to a conference in Denver. Traffic was pretty terrible because of construction on the bridge near Newport on 494. My car needs a new thermistat and valve cover gasket, but I don't have the money to buy them right now (yes, they're both pretty cheap items, but i have no money). My car runs fine, just a little hot - not in the red, and leaks a little oil. So I'll probably just keep driving it as it is even though it's probably not good for it.
Sara had truck problems on the way down here, but it turned out to be no really big deal, but adventurous - she had to have her truck and trailer towed to the fair and then the truck to a repair shop. Faith and Sara went to Walmart and locked the keys in Faith's car. I went there to help them, but Faith's boyfriend Jason was on his way with the lockout kit from the garage he works at. It took him about 30 seconds to open the car. But while we were waiting for him, Faith, Sara, and I played some cards on the hood of her car. Afterwards, I took Sara to pick up her truck from the repair shop which was closed, but they left the keys in it for her and trusted her to slip the money in through the key drop slot.
I had a lot of fun hanging out with Faith and Sara at the fairgrounds durring the horse shows. They stayed there 2 nights in a row, and Sara had a little TV and DVD player in her horse trailer. Sara's gone home now because Faith is done using Tez. It'll be kinda lonely there without her for the rest of the fair. Faith will be using her usual horse, Chica Bonita, for the rest of the fair.
Harmony sang the National Anthem for the beginning of the horse show on the first two days. She also sang it for the talent show last night. Her friend Hanna Szajner went on stage with her to hold the flag. Harmony sang very well (2 verses) and recieved more applause than any other act. There were more than a few tears by the end of the song which she dedicated to her brother Jacob who is a Marine deployed to Iraq. But the judges were biased or else paid-off and she didn't even place. First place went to some little kid who danced to Michael Jackson's Bad or something. What's the world coming to?